Anxiety or something seriously wrong with me? So scared!

Tl;dr: Having scary symptoms after severe anxiety, wondering if it sounds anxiety related or something worse?

Hi everyone!

I'm a 28 year old female and

I've been experiencing multiple alarming symptoms for around the past two months and really hoping someone can offer me some advice if someone has felt similar.

I'll start by saying I've had a pretty rough past 6 months when it comes to my mental health. I have a very precious, very energetic 21 month old little girl and I'll admit I've had a bit of a difficult time adjusting to the toddler stage. Of course we have our fun moments and I love seeing her learn all the new things, but she became extremely clingy a few months ago, I'm talking to the point I could barely get a glass of water or sit on the toilet for 2 minutes without her crying with her arms out wanting me to pick her up, plus barely napping, multiple sleep regressions, and being sick a handful of times, it definitely has not been easy.

I kept telling myself it's just a phase, it'll get better and it has! BUT about exactly two months ago something strange happened and I've been feeling weird ever since.

My daughter had suddenly picked up some kind of sickness( just a cold or something) and I was up the whole entire night with her, sleeping just maybe an hour on the recliner while I held her.

The next night I was so tired obviously, I fell asleep right away and woke up an hour later and my entire right side went numb! It wasn't bad enough to where I couldn't walk but it was like pins and needles radiating from my foot all the way up to my face. It scared me to death and I was almost in tears and about to wake up my husband but it did subside and I went back to sleep and felt okay for a few days. I did see a doctor who did some blood work and found that I was slightly low in vitamin d so I've been taking those for a couple months now.

The second incident was just a couple weeks later, I didn't really feel much numbness anymore, but I started to get chest pains, a vibration feeling in my chest and numbness and tingling all down my left arm. I braved an entire day like that before I broke down and called my parents, I tried to stay calm but I was convinced I was having a heart attack or warning signs of one, and my mom took me to the er where I had an ecg, chest x ray, blood clot test and heart enzymes test. All came back normal, but my blood pressure was a little high, they think due to stress.

Well fast forward to about 3 weeks later and I'm currently feeling worse than ever. I woke up 8 days ago and started feeling the numbness again, it's at different parts of my body, usually not all at the same time, but somethings almost always numb and tingly, I feel nauseas, I'm so f*****g tired, I've been having insomnia on and off. The most terrifying symptoms is the weird body sensations, it's almost like I feel like I'm in slow motion or detached from my body or something. I feel tension in my neck radiating down to my feet. I was also having a conversation with my husband the other day and literally had to stop a compose myself for a second because it's like I couldn't find the words to say.(Also a day when I was sleep deprived)

I have no idea what's going on in my body and I'm starting to get terrified.

I'm not sure if I should wait it out because it's probably most likely stress or go request an mri or something to rule out any neurological diseases or what and cost us another few hundred dollars.

I absolutely have to mention that I went through something a bit similar to this when I was 16 years ago. I had recently went through a year long depression and really thought that I had a brain tumor or some kind of serious illness. I had multiple tests done and a brain mri at 17 and all came back completely normal.

Please let me know if you've experienced anything similar or have any advice.

Thank you!!

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